SPEAKERS PROFILE

Praveen SengarManager – Software & Services Research 
IDC (India) Limited 

Praveen Sengar is Manager with Software and Services Research group. He is responsible for market analysis research and identifying opportunities across Packaged Software market. He handles the Packaged Software market tracker for IDC in India. Praveen has worked with Organizations like Lowe Lintas in brand management and Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals in marketing. 

Praveen graduated from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University with a Master’s Degree in International Business (specialising in International Marketing).k

Mr. Arun Ramachandran
Director Technical - Sybase India 

Mr. Arun Ramachandran is the Director Technical - Sybase India. His responsibilities include overseeing the design, implementation, and delivery of several Sybase projects in India. Mr. Ramachandran has over a decade of experience in understanding customer requirements and therein providing them with best fit solutions. His vision is to establish Sybase as a platform of choice in areas of Enterprise databases, Business intelligence and Mobile Computing and ensure that the Indian customer successes serve as a reference to the rest of the worldwide IT fraternity.

Mr. Ramachandran has been with Sybase since 2004 and prior to joining Sybase he has worked with organizations like SAS, Tata Unisys and Cognizant. 

Sudhagar Thangavelu  
SAP India

Sudhagar has over 6 years of experience in Enterpirse Software Applications and Infrastructure services area and a strong domain understanding of the Banking, Retail, Consumer Products and Manufacturing having worked very closely with leading enterprises in these sectors in understanding their business initiatives and providing enterprise solutions to achieve the same. Currently leads the Sales Initiatives for the Region in the NetWeaver domain for SAP in India

Ashit Panjwani, Director – Marketing , 
SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Ashit Panjwani is currently Director - Marketing at SAS Institute India Pvt. Ltd., prior to joining SAS he was with Novell India. He has an industry Experience of over 15 years. He has completed Bachelor of Engineering from University of Mumbai

Sameer M. Deshpande, TS Lead ( North and East)
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd.

Sameer M Deshpande is a TS Lead for North & East region, he is based out of Gurgaon office. Having worked on Microsoft Technologies for last 12+ yrs, Sameer is known amongst his peers as an Technical Architect on Microsoft Application Platform based Solutions. He has a wide knowledge for Core Infrastructure Solutions as well. He is a person who is highly passionate about technology and constantly works towards staying up to date. Sameer also has been exposed to huge global projects and have played role of Sr. Architect. 

Suresh Chandra, Country Manager, 
COGNOS India

Suresh is the current country manager of Cognos India, and has been involved in Cognos from its startup stage in India. Prior to taking this role Suresh had management positions in IBM-Rational where he grew and managed Rational's business for a large part of the country and transitioned it into IBM post the acquisition. Prior to IBM Rational, Suresh held key positions in TCS in both Mumbai and Bangalore. He has an overall industry experience of 14 years and is a graduate from IIT Kanpur.

Kiran Tailor, Practice Head, Application Development, 
Wipro Infotech, India, ME & APAC 

Kiran Tailor has over 9 yrs of experience in architecting and implementing mission critical, real time integration projects. He has been instrumental in development and implementation of some of the most complex projects for Wipro in BFSI space

Kiran specializes in Stock Securities domain with deep knowledge of Capital Markets, Derivative Markets, Debt Markets and Commodities market. He has also developed systems for Forex Markets, Insurance and Telecom Domains.

An Engineering Graduate in Electronics and Masters in Finance; he currently leads the Application Development Practice in Wipro

Vivek Bhatnagar, Country Director & Global Alliances
Ingres Corporation

Vivek Bhatnagar is the Country Director & Global Alliances Director for Ingres Corporation. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a MS from University of Maryland at College Park. In the current role, he is responsible for India domestic market operations as well as global alliances with leading Indian System Integrators and ISVs for joint global market initiatives and solutions. He has worked in the IT and management consulting industry in US and India for more than 14 years and has held various sales management, business development and consulting roles in organizations such as Informatica Corporation, Accenture, and Infosys Technologies.